Managing A Site In Launchpad

This tutorial will take you through the steps of managing a site on Launchpad based on some customizations that you have already made to iHRIS Manage on your Ubuntu machine.

We will assume that, for the purposes of this tutorial, that the existing customizations live under

/var/lib/iHRIS/sites/manage

Launchpad First Steps

First you should create an account on Launchpad if you not have already done so. We will refer to this account as LAUNCHPAD_USER.

Since we will want to contribute to the code, we will need to create a ssh public key on your Ubuntu machine to add to Launchpad:

sudo apt-get install openssh-client
ssh-keygen -t rsa

When prompted, press Enter to accept the default file name for your key. Next, enter then confirm a password to protect your SSH key.

Your key pair is now stored in ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (public key) and ~/.ssh/id_rsa (private key). Now you need to upload the public portion of your SSH key to Launchpad. To do this, open in your web browser:

https://www.launchpad.net/~LAUNCHPAD_USER

You will see a place that says SSH Keys with an exclamation point (!) in a yellow circle next to it. Click on the (!) scroll down until you see Add an SSH Key and a text box. We will paste our public key into this text box. To do so type in a terminal:

gedit ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

you can now copy the contents of gedit (the public key) into the text box in the web browser. Now simply click on the button Import Public Key

For every computer/account that you use you will need to repeat these steps to create and import a public key.

Bazaar First Steps

First we need to make sure the Bazaaar (bzr) version control software is installed:

 sudo apt-get install bzr bzrtools

You may wish to read the five minute tutorial at this point. You should also let bzr know how you are:

 bzr whoami "Your Name <your@email.add.ress>"

Join the iHRIS Team

Launchpad uses "teams" to control who can modify code it stores under bazaar.